Van der Leyen's attempt to save the German car industry by licking Trump's boot didn't turn out too well for other German industries: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/13/one-europe-biggest-farm-machinery-firms-halts-us-exports-hidden-tariffs-krone
Oliver Richtberg, the head of foreign trade at the German engineering federation VDMA described the EU/US trade deal, struck in July, as “not worth the paper it is written on”.
“Von der Leyen speaks of stability, for our industry that is 100% not true. The bureaucratic hurdles are so high that some companies have just stopped exporting to the US,” added Richtberg.
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